Frank Refol

Platform Engineer • Automation Architect • Infrastructure Innovator

Designing production‑grade systems, mastering automation, and building a fully featured homelab engineered for experimentation, resilience, and continuous learning.

About Me

I’m a Platform Engineer with deep experience in automation, CI/CD, infrastructure management, and systems engineering. I specialize in developing Ansible-driven automation, orchestrating complex hybrid environments, and building resilient, scalable solutions across Windows and Linux ecosystems.

My background spans enterprise monitoring, automated testing, API integration, virtualization, and authentication platforms such as PingID and PingFederate.

Inside the Homelab

My homelab is a production-grade technical ecosystem built on a clustered Proxmox Virtual Environment, integrating automated provisioning, centralized identity, distributed storage, and modern DevOps tooling. It mirrors real-world enterprise infrastructure and serves as a platform for continuous experimentation and skill development.

From Ansible-driven provisioning to a high-availability Nginx reverse proxy cluster, from Ceph storage to CI/CD pipelines powered by Jenkins and GitHub Actions, the lab is engineered for reliability, automation, and hands-on exploration of modern infrastructure patterns.

What I Do